Old Hamlet Quotations Flashcards
‘foul’ and ‘unnatural’ are repeated as he lacks the words to describe the horror of his murder juxtaposing the vivid description of purgatory
‘Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder’
the ghost is angry at Gertrude marrying Claudius
‘That incestuous, that adulterous beast’
‘Let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest’
allusion to the Bible as Claudius is like the devil
‘the serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wars his crown’
Purgatory
‘When I to sulph’rous and tormenting flames’
Leave Gertrude alone to her heaven and guilt
‘taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive against thy mother aught’, ‘leave her to heaven and those thorn that in her bosom lodge to prick and sting her’
the ghost is upset Hamlet has upset Gertrude
‘Speak to her Hamlet’
